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heterosexuality
[ het-er-uh-sek-shoo-al-i-teeor, especially British, -seks-yoo- ]
noun
- sexual desire or behavior directed toward people of the other binary gender.
- the state of being sexually attracted only to the other binary gender.
heterosexuality
- Sexual attraction between a male and a female. ( Compare bisexuality and homosexuality .)
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Word History and Origins
Origin of heterosexuality1
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Example Sentences
Maybe the wheel will turn again, and heterosexuality will come to seem edgy.
From The Daily Beast
They started attending a Mormon support group that encouraged LGBT people to “come back to God” and return to heterosexuality.
From The Daily Beast
And the devil of heterosexuality is definitely in the details.
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Most female pop stars play directly into the “invisible rightness” that surrounds heterosexuality.
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She overenunciates her heterosexuality, like a mother teaching her daughter how to say “bad boy” for the very first time.
From The Daily Beast
On leaving the university his heterosexuality asserted itself normally.
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